When the schedule came out for CodeMash 2018, I knew I wanted to attend Randall Degges’s talk “JWTs Suck (and are stupid)”. As a developer in a shop that uses JWTs for user session tokens, I have to admit it stoked my impostor syndrome. But it’s always best to learn about flaws in your design as early as you can. So on Friday at 9:45, I sat down and got ready to take a beating.

When we started on this whole project of finding a pattern to refactor in React, we knew we wanted to keep the effort small. Everyone was on the same page: let’s get React in and get it rendering something.

OnShift’s 2016 Q4 Hack Day is currently wrapping up. There are a lot great projects that will be coming out of the efforts. Here are a few videos and images to document the event. We will be following up with another blog post to show a complete overview of the event.

For OnShift’s 2016 Q4 Engineering Hack Day, I decided to create a blog for our department to share with the world our passion for the technologies we’ve used here at OnShift. I felt that it was very appropriate to write the first post, explaining what I did to setup this very blog.